When things seem so good. Weve been there before. Are will legitimate reasons to worry and find protection for your money . Well take a much closer look this hour, maria. Then the twiter sphere. Are they leaving money on the table or being realistic about its own financial expectations . Were debating twitter coming up. Obama care still sick. The current prognosis, the website will be fixed, they say, emp by the end of november. Really . How do they know it will be done by then . Im still having trouble, maria, signing up. More questions than answers but well try to get some of those answers this hour. Yes, we will. Lets check where we stand in the markets right now as we approach this final hour ahead of the weekend. Dow joendz industrial average has been steady for most of the afternoon, gain of 40 movements, fraction at move, 15,539. We had Economic Data out. Nasdaq looks like this, up 11 points, quarter of a percent, 3940 on the nasdaq. Very steady for the last couple of hours. S p
15,5701 where the industrial average settles out. Nasdaq up 14. 5 points, a third up a percent at 3943. S p 500 at all time high, uncharitied testimony, 7 up 7. 72 , 1759. Sti stephanie link back with us, rich peterson, ken mahoney from mahoney asset management. This earnings story bob pisani was talking about is pretty compelling. How come earnings are seen rising 4. 5 , and interestingly, revenue looking at expectation of 4 growth there. Whats going on . What are you seeing within these earnings reports for the Third Quarter . Sure. As the beatles once said, its Getting Better all the time. The fact is when we started earning season when alcoa reported on october 8th we were looking for 3 , now 4. 5 . Eight of the ten s p sectors have seen substantial increases in earning expectation over that time. Four have seen more than doubling expectations from where we were 8 october 8th. Notably technology, materials, health sxcare and financials. Were seeing a boom. The fact is we get above
0 history. it s happened with hillary and bill clinton. it s happened when roger clinton, billy carter s brother bill clinton s brother? right. billy carter was jimmy carter s brother. we love it. newt had a gay daughter. rob porter had a gay son and came out and changed his position. let s be clear. the democrats have a platform that s pro-gay marriage. there s a democrat governor candidate in south carolina who is not for that. we don t even know his name. people don t report on him. he s a candidate for governor. he s not the vice president of the united states the cheney family is a bit like the kennedys to the sense to the republicans, i think, they re a hugely important family. to families in the republican p party gay marriage issue in america. when it s affecting the republican party personally that s an interesting story. what about the point mary cheney made an issue, therefore journalists don t have much of a choice but to acknowledge it in a senate rac
0 of yourself it is not the same thing as having your siblings talk about an issue. why don t you talk for a moment about being gay and working in worked in politics, maybe not wanting the exposure in your professional life about your personal life. oh, absolutely. no, absolutely. did you grapple with this earlier in your career? yes and no. i worked for a republican senator 20 years ago and was basically in the closet. absolutely it s a concern. you know, especially back then i think when you re really worried about losing your job based on your sexual orientation. mary cheney has been open lly g for at least 13 years or so. she was the gay liaison for coors 20 years ago or something. having said that, mary and her wife heather decided to write on facebook about their concerns about liz, the sister. the family made it public. what i think is look, i think this isn t just gossip. i think gay marriage is certainly the issue of the year in the gay community. i think it s also
0 with gay marriage? not gay marriage but being gay. i had a brush with being gay? i actually am gay. proudly gay. you were a foreign policy spoke for mitt romney. you decided to leave. there was pressure from the right. and the left. the liberal left. someone who lived through that do you think the media personalize these things? first of all, it is a bad question to compare what his is going through with what i am going through. this is a media show. the media overly focus on republicans. they do not want republicans to be anything but in a box. that is what is unfair. they do not do the same thing for democrats. if they would, if they would across the board hold democrats to the same standard as republicans, i would not have a problem. the problem is, when you put it on the front page of new york times congressman weiner. when you training naked pictures of yourself it is not the same as having your sibling talk about an issue. john, talk about being gay an